Check and Measurement: Rohde & Schwarz’s COO retires

After a decade of serving as chief working officer and a part of the manager board of Rohde & Schwarz, Peter Riedel (pictured beneath) is retiring from the corporate, citing private causes. Riedel, who took the COO function in 2014, will keep a task as an advisor to the corporate.

“After almost 36 years at Rohde & Schwarz, I’ve determined that now’s the time to take a special course professionally,” Riedel stated. “I look again at my time with Rohde & Schwarz with satisfaction and gratefulness, a time during which we superior the corporate collectively and ready it for the longer term. I want my colleagues the world over all the perfect for the longer term.”

The R&S government board now consists of President and CEO Christian Leicher and Andreas Pauly, who was appointed president and CTO within the fall of 2023. Pauly is briefly taking up the COO duties as properly.

“Peter Riedel performed a key function within the extremely profitable improvement of Rohde & Schwarz over the previous a long time. He very positively formed quite a few features of our firm. We thank him for his many a long time of excellent and profitable dedication to Rohde & Schwarz and want him a lot of continued success in his profession,” stated Leicher.

In different check information:

–Emerson reported gross sales up 11% year-on-year to almost $11.4 billion for the second quarter.

President and CEO Lal Karsanbhai referred to as the corporate’s efficiency “sturdy” and famous that Emerson noticed stable progress in orders and that profitabiltiy and money move exceeded expectations.

Emerson’s Software program and Management phase, which incorporates Nationwide Devices (NI), reported almost $1.4 billion in gross sales, with an underlying progress charge of seven%, the corporate reported. Its Clever Units phase reported internet gross sales for the second quarter of almost $3 billion, up barely from the identical time a 12 months in the past.

Emerson acquired NI within the fall of 2023.

–Anritsu has launched a spectrum sensor that may be built-in into different methods and used for monitoring or capturing alerts, with frequency protection from 9 kHz as much as 54 GHz. The spectrum monitoring module has on-board processing and 110 megahertz of real-time spectrum evaluation bandwidth, in response to the check firm, in addition to the flexibility to detect alerts as faint as -164 dBm. The microwave spectrum monitor “is designed to be built-in right into a system from the bottom up,” Anritsu added, calling the brand new resolution “the proper software for including spectrum consciousness into any platform on the lookout for interference or protection mapping. … In dynamic environments, a dependable sensor bundle to observe the RF spectrum might be vital for operations, and the MS27200A combines Anritsu’s a long time of expertise right into a single bundle.”

–Keysight Applied sciences stated this week that its check options enabled the primary Launch 16 automotive sidelink check of radio interoperability, with testing carried out between Ettifos’ Sirius 5G-V2X sidelink platform and Autotalks‘ Secton3 5G-V2X chipset.

“This vendor-to-vendor conformance check marks a pivotal second within the improvement of 5G vehicle-to-everything developments,” stated Kangmin Lee, COO of Ettifos. “For Ettifos, this enables us to verify that our world-first software program upgradable 5G-V2X on-board unit offers dependable, interference-free communication for street security and comfort functions, whereas mutually verifying interoperability with Keysight and Autotalks’ 5G-V2X options.”

–Tech Mahindra has signed an MoU with Northeastern College to collaborate on Open RAN and 6G analysis and improvement, with a give attention to large-scale O-RAN testing and certification. The joint effort will leverage Tech Mahindra’s telecom experience and Northeastern’s Open6G Open Testing and Integration Middle (OTIC), to supply complete testing companies, together with end-to-end testing in each digital and real-world environments, the companions stated.

–Altair has partnered with engineering and R&D firm L&T Know-how Companies (LTTS) on a digital twin middle of excellence.

“Our superior method mixed with LTTS’ experience will assist groups higher design, construct, check, optimize, consider what-if situations, carry out predictive upkeep, and prolong the remaining helpful life (RUL) of their merchandise with out bodily prototypes,” stated Stephanie Buckner, COO of Altair.

“The strategic partnership with Altair is poised to revolutionize the digital twin know-how panorama,” stated Abhishek Sinha, government director and president of Medical, Sensible World, and Capabilities at LTTS. “By leveraging LTTS’ unparalleled cross-domain engineering experience and Altair’s distinctive simulation and information evaluation capabilities, we’re set to redefine business requirements throughout segments equivalent to mobility, sustainability and high-tech.”

–Tektronix this week unveiled a brand new, distant process name (RPC)-based resolution, referred to as TekHSI, that helps quicker information switch from testing devices to a person’s PC.

–Viavi Options just lately launched a brand new, fiber-sensing-based resolution for real-time, vital infrastructure monitoring and analytics. Its Nitro Fiber Sensing resolution makes use of distant fiber check heads (FTH) to observe fiberoptic cables themselves in addition to fiber-enabled infrastructure, with use instances in pipelines, information middle interconnections, and electrical energy transmission, amongst others. “By performing real-time distributed fiber optic sensing, FTH can measure temperature and pressure alongside a fiber or detect acoustic vibrations near a fiber,” the check firm defined. Alert varieties from fiber sensing embrace automobile motion, digging operations, fishing nets or ship anchors encroaching on useful property, Viavi stated, and the alarms embrace “exact location info” to move on to upkeep or restore groups.

–Deepwave Digital has introduced three new merchandise that are a part of its Synthetic Intelligence Radio Transceiver (AIR-T) embedded product household. All of them use Nvidia Orin NX GPUs, geared toward furthering the corporate’s aim of supporting integration of AI in RF methods.